Lol home of the free, what a shit hole

This is hardly the first, and definitely not the last corporate fad. We should have just about finished moving everything to the block chain by now.

The reality is that more and more web users are phone and tablet only.

Phones and tablets are consumer devices and most users are consumers rather than creators. This is especially true outside the Anglo-sphere and in developing countries.

All this to say it’s going to get worse and may never get better.

Man, I liked some of Klein’s videos from way back ( idubbbz as well) but when YouTubers shift from whatever content they were making to making content about the platform or others on it I usually check out real quick.

I also can’t do 3 hour podcasts where people talk over each other and yell either so maybe I’m just not the target demo anymore.

I totally believe him when he says that. I’m not sure he remembers what he had for breakfast yesterday.

The people around him sure do though

Nah this type of law exists to be selectively applied, that’s what makes it so great.

The only people who it will be applied to are those who are “undesirable” or step out of line.

Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.

For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it’s gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn’t give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.

While accounts don’t necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.

If they are standing their ground it might be up for debate.

It all started that day Day road up on that seadoo…

Actually I’ll never forget Air Farce lampooning Preston Manning, good times.

I disagree that he is effective in anything other than being not Trudeau and being a contrarian in the American conservative mold. If he was at all a good politician he would not have fumbled this election the way he did. The liberals made some good plays but if PP had spent one minute reading the room instead of playing party over country he might have been PM.

If he manages to hang around until the next one he will probably get in when the left splits again but it won’t be because he’s good at his job it will be because he has a pulse and a name on the ballot under conservative.

The conservatives still turned out a lot of votes. The left just voted strategically to keep them out. Next election the left will split again and we will get the conservatives again. Given the parties recent history even if it isn’t Poilievre I’m sure they will pick another alt right sycophant.

Same regarding the last referendum. When that happened I knew for sure it had to be introduced in a smaller lower stakes way which is why I was pretty happy when London used ranked choice (a bright spot for a city whose politicians suck more often than not). Removing that is one of the things I hate most about Doug.

You will never get it top down. The major parties all prefer and benefit from different systems.

If you truely care about electoral reform your best bet is bottom up. Start getting your preferred form into municipal elections. We almost had that in Ontario until Doug showed up and fucked us.

Like the Americans they are party over country. The country has major economic issues. I don’t need to hear the prattle on about shit being “woke” or whatever. I need them to provide actual solutions. The modern conservative party like their American counterparts can’t govern, they just go on about bullshit and attack the other side.

All PP had to do was not be a boot licker. He couldn’t even do that.

The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.

Everyone I’ve known who has done has always been an incredibly low information voter. It isn’t that hard to make a choice. Expecting to have a federal party that matches 100 percent of your beliefs is not realistic and presenting it as an option is just used to suppress votes.

Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.

There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.

No, no it is not.

I don’t think Doug is a viable federal candidate and the only reason he remains in power in Ontario is because the Ontario liberals are in disarray and decided running Doug -lite was a good idea in 2025. Never the less it would be nice to see a classical fuck you I got mine conservative at the head of the party again.